irish cream chocolate chip cookies
Let’s step up our cookie game with Irish cream chocolate chip cookies! Pillowy soft with an almost melt-in-your-mouth texture, these are no average cookie. By swapping some of the butter with softened cream cheese and adding a touch of cornstarch, these cookies bake up thick and puffy (so much so that I like to flatten the mounds of dough substantially before baking for greater uniformity).
With a slight tang from the cream cheese, sweet notes of Irish cream, and plenty of rich chocolate, these are my new favorite chocolate chip cookies.
Irish Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Yield: 24 cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 6 Tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 oz reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3 Tbsp Irish Cream
- 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Topping
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter and cream cheese in a large mixer bowl at medium speed until smooth; add sugars and beat until creamy. Beat in egg, then add Irish Cream and mix in until combined. Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture; beat just until incorporated. Fold in chocolate chips, cover dough, and chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper. Form 1 1/2-inch balls of dough and place two inches apart on prepared baking sheets; spray the back of a measuring cup with nonstick spray and press to flatten mounds of dough slightly. Top with remaining chocolate chips, pressing to adhere.
- Bake, rotating pans halfway through, for about 11 minutes, until tops and edges are set. Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
Nutrition
- Calories: 150
- Carbohydrates: 21
Keywords: Irish Cream, Chocolate, St. Patrick's Day
23 comments
These may become my new favorite chocolate chip cookie, too, Laura! Between the cream cheese and the Irish Cream, these may be the most decadent chipper I’ve ever seen! They look fabulous!
Chocolate Chip cookies are sooo good! You’ve taken then to another level of fabulous Laura!
You’re stepping up your cookie and St. Patty’s Day game with these Laura! They sound delicious!
Love a good choc chip cookie or biscuit, Laura and these sound and look delish!
The texture of these sounds incredible! I’m always game to test a new chocolate chip cookie and these Irish Cream spiked gems are perfect!!!
What a wonderful cookie you have created here, love that you used cream cheese and Irish cream. I bet these are delicious!!!
Wow! These cookies look like perfection!
These have got to be the tastiest cookies! Love the Irish cream! 🙂
Cookies with Irish cream? Now they must taste divine! 🙂 And they are perfect for St. Patrick’s themed party!
Chocolate chippers are my fav and I love the Irish twist on them here! Your description of their texture has me sold!!
Pinned this and I know I will be baking these very soon. Irish cream in chocolate chip cookies is awesome
These cookies are everything! I love the addition of irish cream in it! I would have never thought to do so !!
I just have to make these, the combination of flavors is calling my name ~ maybe I’ll whip up a batch with my homemade Irish Cream!
Oh my WORD these look good! I never would have thought to add Irish cream to chocolate chip cookies. Genius!
I can’t resist Irish cream! YUM!
What a perfect way to elevate chocolate chip cookies! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day enjoyment 🙂
These look incredible! love how soft and pillowy these are 🙂 Pinning!
Oh my goodness, these look absolutely gorgeous! I love adding cream cheese to a cookie batter, incredible texture!
Hi Laura – between cream cheese and Irish cream and your description, I am swooning! I will be trying these!
I truly can add irish cream to everything and I will enjoy it. Laura, this sounds insanely good and the texture is amazing.
xo
I made these cookies because our weekend tradition is coffee with baileys Irish cream in it. These cookies are a very different texture than what I’m used to. But they are so good! Very fluffy. It’s important to note that until you add the flour, my dough was quite liquid-y. Overall a very yummy cookie and I will be making again. I recommend eating them with Irish cream coffee!
Thanks Michelle, so glad you liked them. And yes, I agree that a side of Irish cream coffee is a must! 🙂
Those chocolate chips!!! Gimme!